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docking using Kyte-Doolittle-based water preferences

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A novel and simple hydrophobicity scale derived from the Kyte-Doolittle hydrophobicity scale leads to a performance improvement of around 10% in ranking, cluster quality and water recovery at the interface compared with the statistics-based original solvated docking protocol.

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